Biblica Analytica
H0622 Hebrew

אָסַף

a.saph

to gather

Lexicon Entry

Definition
to gather
Transliteration
a.saph
Strong's Number
H0622
Occurrences
200
Semantic Domain
Movement & Travel

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What Original Readers Understood

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# The Hebrew Word אָסַף (asaph): Gathering and Collection The Hebrew verb אָסַף (asaph) carries the fundamental meaning "to gather," appearing 200 times throughout the biblical text. This frequency indicates it was a common and important concept in ancient Hebrew communication. The word encompasses the physical act of bringing scattered items or people together into a single location or unified group, making it essential vocabulary for describing both everyday activities and significant events. The versatility of this verb reflects its practical applicability across multiple contexts. Whether describing the collection of agricultural produce, the assembly of people, or the gathering of resources, אָסַף functioned as a primary Hebrew term for consolidation and assembly. Its high frequency of use—appearing in approximately 200 biblical passages—underscores that gathering, collecting, and bringing together were recurring themes in biblical narrative and instruction, likely reflecting the realities of ancient Israelite life where communal gathering and resource collection were regular necessities. The significance of this word extends beyond mere physical action; its repeated use suggests that the concept of gathering held cultural and potentially theological weight in biblical expression. The consistency with which Hebrew speakers reached for this particular verb to describe bringing things together indicates it was the natural, unmarked term for such activities, making it a fundamental building block of Hebrew communication about assembly, collection, and unity.

Source data & methodology
Strong's
H0622
Lemma
אָסַף
Transliteration
a.saph
Definition
to gather
Occurrences
200
Model
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
Prompt version
1

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Occurrences in Scripture

200 total occurrences across the text — showing 50

2 Chronicles 24:11

Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

2 Chronicles 28:24

Ahaz gathered together the vessels of God’s house, and cut the vessels of God’s house in pieces, and shut up the doors of Yahweh’s house; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 29:4

He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the wide place on the east,

2 Chronicles 29:15

They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by Yahweh’s words, to cleanse Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 29:20

Then Hezekiah the king arose early, gathered the princes of the city, and went up to Yahweh’s house.

2 Chronicles 30:3

For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, and the people had not gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 30:13

Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.

2 Chronicles 34:9

They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:28

“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.” ’ ” They brought back word to the king.

2 Chronicles 34:28

“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.” ’ ” They brought back word to the king.

2 Chronicles 34:29

Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

Ezra 3:1

When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

Ezra 9:4

Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.

Nehemiah 8:1

All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.

Nehemiah 8:13

On the second day, the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Ezra the scribe, to study the words of the law.

Nehemiah 9:1

Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.

Nehemiah 12:28

The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;

Job 27:19

He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

Job 34:14

If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

Job 39:12

Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?

Psalms 26:9

Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

Psalms 27:10

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

Psalms 35:15

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

Psalms 35:15

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

Psalms 39:6

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

Psalms 47:9

The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted!

Psalms 50:5

“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

Psalms 85:3

You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

Psalms 104:22

The sun rises, and they steal away, and lie down in their dens.

Psalms 104:29

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

Proverbs 27:25

The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.

Proverbs 30:4

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Isaiah 4:1

Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”

Isaiah 10:14

My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

Isaiah 10:14

My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

Isaiah 11:12

He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah 13:4

The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.

Isaiah 16:10

Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

Isaiah 17:5

It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

Isaiah 24:22

They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited.

Isaiah 33:4

Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

Isaiah 43:9

Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”

Isaiah 49:5

Now Yahweh, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.

Isaiah 52:12

For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

Isaiah 58:8

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 60:20

Your sun will not go down any more, nor will your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will end.

Isaiah 62:9

but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise Yahweh. Those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”